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Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq
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Home Front: Politix
The "Teflon Tyrant" (In 1 Cartoon)
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We shrugged and walked away when Affirmative Action hiring became the norm. We shrugged and walked away when promotions were driven by Affirmative Action criteria. We shrugged and walked away when college admissions fell under the unspoken Affirmative Action mantel of approval. We shrugged and moved away when unchecked neighborhood crime and the gerrymandering of congressional districts permitted intellectual giants such as Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, and Sheila Jackson Lee to enter congress and sow the seeds of division and hate and entitlement within their own racist caucus.

A "Teflon Tyrant?" What did we expect ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2014 5:37 Comments || Top||

#2  My apologies. Please delete one (or both) of the above.

Done.

-- tw at 8:38 ET
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2014 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Hear, hear Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2014 5:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Buyer's remorse setting in even for the Kool Aid drinkers?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2014 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Well said B. I'm going to quot this in a few places, unless you object... Thanks
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/03/2014 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  No objection, but be sure to spellcheck my review my lagging grammar.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2014 13:22 Comments || Top||

#7  And mines any better? HAHHAHAHAHA
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/03/2014 18:06 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Russian Aircraft Can't Save Iraq
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another "expert".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2014 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Meanwhile US zoomies are dumping the A10...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/03/2014 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  They're not there to save Iraq. They're there to expand Iran.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/03/2014 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  The SU-25 COULD save Iraq, but only by destroying most of the Sunni portion.

Iran is Shia. Most of Iraq is Shia. Iran is in Iraq to protect Shia and Shia 'holy' sites.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/03/2014 13:51 Comments || Top||

#5  some of the Shia holy sites are in the Sunni part of the country. Which makes for a lot of ethnic cleansing.
Posted by: frozen al || 07/03/2014 14:14 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel's Present And Future Security Challenges In The Field Of Counter-Terrorism
[Jpost] Israel has been forced to cope with waves of terrorism of various types and intensities since its founding and to this day. These waves of terrorism are carried out by various terrorist organizations (Paleostinian and Shi'ite) in various arenas (internal, along the borders, overseas) and using various methods (suicide kabooms, bombs, kidnappings and negotiations, shootings and more).

In the decade since the end of the second Intifada, and since the death of Yasser Arafat and his replacement by Abu Mazen, there has been a significant lull in the number of terrorist attacks on Israeli soil, the wave of suicide attacks has subsided and the number casualties from terrorist attacks has diminished. On the other hand, there has been a significant increase in the scope of the threat of high trajectory fire from terrorist organizations in the northern arena (Leb) and the southern arena (the Gazoo Strip and Sinai peninsula).

There have been several developments in recent years that have had a direct impact on the scope and nature of terrorism today and in the immediate future. The first development is reflected in the tectonic changes that have taken place in Arab countries in recent years, known as the "Arab Spring." The most important changes being reflected in the revolutions taking place in the countries bordering Israel as well as in those in the second and third cycle.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A few years ago a car sticker "have Arabs, have terrorism" appeared on a lot of cars in Israel. It was, of course, outlawed as racist.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2014 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Strange is it not? We accept the givens and variants of Sudoku and Kakuro, but reject the facts of behavior, human genetics, and DNA.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2014 6:13 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 A few years ago a car sticker "have Arabs, have terrorism" appeared on a lot of cars in Israel. It was, of course, outlawed as racist.

Somehow, the deleterious effects of political correctness, the tool the left loves to use to squelch debate, needs to be weakened to defend a country. Looks like Israel as well as the U.S. suffers from this.

Catherine Herridge, came out with a book in 2011 entitled "The Next Wave." In it, she makes a case for the growing internal terrorist threat of home-grown jihadists. Both Israel and the U.S. needs to address this threat. Israel, through necessity, has addressed this to the extent they seem to have minimized suicide boomer threats. Maybe the U.S. not so much because of PC and a huge bureaucracy that hamstrings effectiveness.

Another aspect, of recent in the U.S. is the lack of transparency and trust that has been growing in the U.S. during this administration and to some extent during the last administration. It creates a us (government) against them (citizens) mentality. You see some of this pushback occurring now.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2014 10:59 Comments || Top||


Government
The Time Has Come: Defund The IRS - Steve Forbes
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/03/2014 11:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An idea long past its time.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/03/2014 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Any Federal agency that is weaponized against the American people should be defunded or done away with. A flat tax or some other simpler scheme would limit the amount of bureaucracy carry out such a tax law.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2014 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  bureaucracy [required to] carry out such a tax law...
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2014 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 as the Instaprof would say - where's the graft in that?

The more money/resources people try to tax/steal from others the more those with money/resources spend on protecting it, which seem strangely to involve buying politicians who do the tax codes, thus the exponential growth in tax laws and regulations and power of the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2014 11:49 Comments || Top||

#5  very simple. Have a flat tax and the states collect. When the feds play their games of unfunded mandates now the states have the last word.
Posted by: airandee || 07/03/2014 14:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Imagine a republican candidate with an "Abolish the IRS" platform.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2014 14:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I Imagine a 99% turnout.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/03/2014 17:34 Comments || Top||

#8  The entire tax system is a payoff to two constituencies that give lots of money to both parties...tax lawyers and CPAs.

If you made the tax simple, you would put several hundred thousand of these parasites out of work. According to some articles I have read, and I may be wrong about the exact numbers though the magnitude is close, apparently tax preparation is a 10 billion dollar industry to the lawyers and accountants, assessing some dollar value to the time spent preparing individual returns, calculates out to be about the same amount.

Imagine $20 Billion to file income taxes? AND it produces nothing. Alan Greenspan said that any government program that cost money but produces nothing is purely inflationary.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/03/2014 20:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Feminism As a Mating Strategy Among Beta Males
Really funny, but NSFW
I also get a right ripping good bloody chuckle from male-feminist bloggers online at such websites as Good Men Project and XY, safe places where male feminists share their stories of how to be men without being anything that being a man traditionally entails. You can find such self-gelding castrati in homemade YouTube videos and the painfully self-deballing video marvel "Dear Woman" of a few years back.
You should read the whole thing.
Posted by: badanov || 07/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think he was talking about the Democratic party.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/03/2014 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Or the apparent new trend of gaye television commercials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2014 5:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Great article and some truly spectacular comments. Best read I have had in a long while.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/03/2014 6:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Claiming to be a "Male lesb!an" probably will not going to fly either as a mating strategy. When I think of "feminist," I think of NOW. Many, maybe most, of these feminists aren't that fond of men.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2014 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Strike "going to."
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2014 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Jesse Watters Gets Kicked Out of NOW Conference, Threatened With Arrest

As I recall, the YAF used to pass out popcorn to Lefty students engaging in "hunger strikes" ("Oooh! I skipped my Snicker bar this afternoon in support of [insert cause here].")

Wonder if something of like intent could be accomplished at NOW, etc. confabs?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/03/2014 10:51 Comments || Top||

#7  If you are trying to get dates, my advice is try to pass as a very butch l3sb!an. At least there is some dignity in that.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2014 13:46 Comments || Top||

#8  I doubt if any woman worth waking up next to is going to hate men and be a rabid feminist.

Some of the crap in the media about feminism these days makes me think of "The World According to Garp" which was a huge slam of the feminist movement and probably more predictive of its evolution than anyone thought at the time.

A good woman demands two things:

Respect

And a man that is a MAN.

Don't forget the ten manly arts:

Change a diaper
Mow a yard
Change the oil on a car
Cook
Shoot a pistol
Bait a hook with a worm
Wash dishes
Do laundry
Iron a shirt
House break a puppy

That may sound whipped but a man that can do all that does not marry because he wants a surrogate mommy. He can care for his family, defend his family and not live like a slob in the basement of his parents' home.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/03/2014 13:46 Comments || Top||

#9  ..and kill spiders.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2014 17:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Almost as bad as Republicans voting for amnesty.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/03/2014 17:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2014-07-03
  Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq
Wed 2014-07-02
  Civilian group: 56 dead in Nigeria market blast
Tue 2014-07-01
  Report: Abbas holding 'frantic' talks with US, EU
Mon 2014-06-30
  Bodies of Kidnapped Teens Found Near Hevron
Sun 2014-06-29
  Afghan Forces Claim Victory in Major Taliban Battle
Sat 2014-06-28
  Maliki rejects calls for emergency government
Fri 2014-06-27
  Syrian planes bomb Sunni targets in Iraq, Maliki rejects calls for emergency government
Thu 2014-06-26
  At least 21 killed in rush-hour blast in Nigerian capital
Wed 2014-06-25
  Zarb-i-Azb: 47 militants killed in NWA, Khyber blitz
Tue 2014-06-24
  Thousands flee North Waziristan region on last day of evacuation
Mon 2014-06-23
  Syria Army, Hizbullah Seek to Oust Rebels from Qalamun Foothills
Sun 2014-06-22
  30 militants killed in Khyber Agency, N Waziristan air blitz
Sat 2014-06-21
  Lebanon security chief escapes suicide attack
Fri 2014-06-20
  Zarb-i-Azb operation: 23 militants killed in fresh strikes
Thu 2014-06-19
  Iraq Battles ISIL for Control of Baiji Refinery

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